Real moments. Meaningful memories.
A wedding is a funny thing. You spend months, sometimes years, planning one day, getting all your favourite people in the same place, feeding them, dressing up, drinking too much and hoping everyone behaves themselves. Whether you are getting married in the Cotswolds, the Scottish Highlands, London, Dorset, Yorkshire, Devon, the Lake District, Cheshire or Italy, our approach always stays the same. Because wedding day goes ridiculously quickly. We take time to get to know you properly and understand what matters most, so we can document your wedding naturally and honestly, capturing not only how it looked but how it felt to be there.
We believe photos should be about the wedding, not wedding about photos.
Your wedding day is about being with your people, feeling everything as it happens and actually living it, not being pulled out of it for the sake of creating photographs. Photographs are so much more than just pictures. They are the things you’ll look back on years from now and remember not just how it looked, but how it felt. The tight hug, the ridiculous laugh, your dad when he thinks nobody is looking, the little things you might not even notice on the day. We take time to get to know you and blend in with your guests like old friends with cameras. We watch, we listen and we look for the things that matter, the quirks, the laughter, the tears and all the little bits that make your wedding yours. Our documentary approach is relaxed, natural and honest. We want you to have the best time of your lives, not feel like you’ve spent the day being photographed. Because your wedding is a wedding, not a photoshoot.
Our aim is to freeze the moments to keep memories alive. The serius ones and the silly too. Kisses, belly laughs and tears… creating timeless memories! So taking this less traditional approach allows us create beautiful story from inside which will simply stand out and is uniquely yours!
“All we want is to actually be with our people. Not dragged away for hours.”
Hate the idea of posing?
You are definitely not alone.
Hate the idea of posing?
You’re definitely not alone. Most couples tell us this before we even meet. They want great photographs, but the thought of spending hours being told where to stand, how to smile and what to do with their hands makes them want to run for the hills. Fair enough. You’ve got a wedding to enjoy. It shouldn’t turn into a photo shoot.
We keep couple photos short, usually around 15 minutes, and make them enjoyable part of your day rather than stopping everything for them. It can be a chance to disappear together for a few minutes, take a breath and realise you’ve actually just got married. Then you’re back with your people. No re-creating somebody else’s photographs, no ‘kiss again’, no strange poses. We want to see how you two actually are together, because that’s what makes personal and true to your relationship.
And when you book us, it’s Janina and Jawad who you get, or Janina on her own if you choose the one photographer option. The people you’ve got to know before the wedding are the ones who’ll be there on the day, photographing it as it happens.
“We’re not interested in staged romance. We want the messy, funny, emotional bits.”
No two weddings feel the same because no two relationships are the same and it’s exactly how we approach each weddings we’re invited to photograph. Love is love and we photograph couples of all ages, races, religions and genders. Whether it is an intimate elopement or a 500-guest celebration, our role is always the same: to document it with care and attention to what makes it yours.
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“We want the kind of photos that make us cry with laughter years later.”
We’ve put a few weddings and a fair bit of madness together for you to look through. The big moments are in there, obviously, but have a look at what happens around them too. That’s usually where we are.
